8 Kitchen Features That Will Add The Most Value to Your Home

The kitchen is one of the most versatile rooms in the home and can be used for so much more than simply preparing food, from being used as a socialising space to a room in which to work.

But what are the top kitchen features that will add most value to your property?Certain home improvements and renovations can really boost your property’s worth so it’s time to get clued up.

A well-designed kitchen can be the pull factor for potential buyers, so much so, that the National Association for Estate Agents (NAEA) makes this suggestion for potential sellers: if homeowners can only afford to renovate one room, then it should always be the kitchen. After compiling data from 34 different estate agents, designers and property professionals across the UK, housing agents Sell House Fast have ranked the kitchen features in order of value-increasing potential. Spacious and modern storage units are found to be the best kitchen feature to increase property value, with 72 per cent of experts choosing this. This is followed by fitted energy-efficient appliances, with 66 per cent of expert approval.

See the infographic below for the top eight kitchen features that will boost your property’s value the most.

To really enhance the worth of your home, the experts recommend you should aim for a combination of these kitchen features.

‘The kitchen is certainly a focal room which people are now utilising for more than one purpose,’ Robby Du Toit, managing director of Sell House Fast, said.

‘In doing so, homeowners are looking for a kitchen that is stylish, modern and highly functional. This research certainly demonstrates there are various aspects which homeowners need to get right when renovating their kitchen.’

‘Some obvious, whilst many others a revelation. The great takeaway from the consulted experts is that lavish and over-the-top additions are not needed to enhance the condition and aesthetics of a kitchen.’

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